Word: notionalism
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...think one or two men and women on staff had a notion that they would go into the entertainment arts,” he recalls, “but for everyone else, it didn’t seem like the completely plausible Ivy League choice...
...clear. "This study shows that if there is a gun in the home, kids will gravitate towards it," Wallace told TIME.com. "Parents can say no, no don?t touch that, and warn the kids about the gun, but it won?t matter. This kind of study really supports the notion that there is inherent danger in having a gun in the home...
...notion of personal responsibility took another shot in the chops last week when Matthew F. Kennelly, a federal district judge in Chicago, ruled that Elizabeth Randolph ("Randy") Roach, 47, should not serve up to 18 months in prison for embezzling $241,061 from her former employer. Instead, the judge sentenced the defendant to five years' probation, six months of weekends confined to her home, six weeks of incarceration in a Salvation Army work-release center and a $30,000 fine. Lawyers on both sides of the case said it was the first time a shopaholic defense has triumphed...
...autobiography, My Days. And, while the British ruled, Narayan never wrote about the independence movement. Waiting for the Mahatma appeared only in 1955. I do not hold this against him. He might have been looking for peace, but Malgudi was also a delicate literary creation. Much depended on the notion of the timelessness of the petty life there, the true India just going on. The high feelings of the independence movement would have been too radical...
...everybody thinks Xybernaut is on to a sure thing, though. Over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, scientist Steven Schwartz and researcher Richard DeVaul scoff at the notion of wearables as a consumer product. "Why would you want to surf the Net or play a computer game while you walk around?" asks Schwartz, a genial 46-year-old who wears his skepticism lightly. "How would you survive crossing the street?" His argument against the MA-IV is that it simply takes a laptop computer and distributes its components around the body. The machine doesn't do anything...